Analysis | The GOP has created a safe space for musing about violent rebellion

Analysis: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s comments at a Young Republican event this weekend reflect a deeper embrace of the prospect of violence, Philip Bump writes.

“A similar group of men repeated the strategy at the New York Young Republican Club, filling it with far-right members, too,” the Times continued.

By now, there is an enormous library of polling showing more sympathy for the use of violence as a political response by the right. Here, for example, isThere is also evidence that a willingness to embrace nondemocratic forms of government is more common among the group that was being feted at this weekend’s event. 2017 polling from the World Values Surveythat an alarming percentage of the country thought that an autocratic form of government would be fairly or very good.

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